the administration really failed these Americans.

there can be just no more excuses.

the current Medicare payment system must be repealed and that the rate of growth in health care spending in the United States is unsustainable.

My legislation employs the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the development of cost-effective payment models that ensure quality patient care.

It is stunning that House Republicans have the audacity to hold this hearing under the pretense that they care about poverty in our nation.

The Republican budget eviscerates important investments in education and initiatives to enable people to move into the middle class.

Republicans and Democrats must seek common ground on a sensible budget to avoid harming families, seniors, small businesses and our economy as a whole.

Unless we replace the sequester, 140,000 low-income Americans will lose their housing assistance.

The American people deserve to be able to trust their government for fairness and lack of bias, and that was violated.

We don't always have a panel that is so much agreement. So really very pleased to see the consistency of both intention that we should repeal this SGR permanently, and replace it with a new payment system that does reward quality and…

We have made a commitment, Social Security to seniors and to their families, and we ought to start with the premise of absolutely sustaining it and making sure it's there for our current seniors and our future seniors.

I hope that in this hearing and in future discussions, we will be able to honor their service by making sure we fully understand what happened, what could have happened differently potentially and, maybe most importantly, identify lessons…

we are going to deal with the deficit, we are going to create that certainty, we are going to do it in a way that does not hurt our fragile economic recovery.

Our friendship is not unconditional, that there are consequences.

How this evolves for Egypt is just enormously important, not only for the people--not only for the Egyptians but also for the United States and for the region.

Agreement on this really requires us to find a way forward, to find that common ground, and to meet our obligations to Americans.

The key to this, again, it is not that the budget process itself; it is compromise, it is fundamental fairness.

Process does not address political will and I think that it was made even clearer that without real agreement between the president and Congress we can choose to ignore our own decisions.

I have and continue to be a very strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act because it will extend access to affordable, meaningful health coverage to all Americans.

The Republican plan to convert Medicare into a voucher program means that seniors will no longer have access to a guaranteed set of health benefits.

Despite Republican claims, IPAB is not a 'death panel' nor is it a 'rationing board.' That is merely scare tactics.

This is significant because it shows how much Democrats think this is hurting them politically.

It's time for Weiner to go.

The 01' and 03' tax cuts for the rich: WERE NOT PAID FOR.